THE BODY COUNT GROWS.

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“Any President, as Commander-in-Chief, faces no more solemn decision than whether to send American troops into battle, knowing they will not all return.”

John F. Kennedy, October 12, 1960

In just 18 months, Donald Trump, who calls himself the ‘Peace President,’ has sent Americans into military action against seven countries.

A modern record.🤯

Iraq, Nigeria, Somalia, Syria, Venezuela, and Yemen, plus a 60-plus missile strikes on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean, and of course, the big one, Iran.

All without Congressional approval, which the Constitution requires.

It’s all too crazy even for this feckless Congress.

They dither and debate, and yet they’ve failed to pass a meaningful war powers resolution. So Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth get to continue playing at war, and the body count continues to grow.

• Iran June 2025: B-2 bombers hit underground nuclear sites at Fordow/Natanz with bunker-busters, plus sub-launched cruise missiles on Isfahan (Operation Midnight Hammer). Feb 2026: joint U.S.-Israel strikes across Iran targeted leadership and military sites, killing Supreme Leader Khamenei.

• Iraq March 2025: a precision airstrike in Al Anbar province killed ISIS’s second-in-command.

• Nigeria Dec 25, 2025: strikes on 16 ISIS targets in Sokoto state, coordinated with the Nigerian government.

• Somalia Starting Feb 2025: 126 counterterrorism operations against al-Shabaab/ISIS-Somalia in 2025 alone, killing nearly 200 militants.

• Syria Dec 2025–Jan 2026: Operation Hawkeye Strike hit 70+ ISIS targets, expanded to 35 more after an attack killed two U.S. soldiers and a U.S. interpreter.

• Venezuela Sept 2025 onward: strikes on alleged drug boats; Jan 2026: special forces raid (Operation Absolute Resolve) captured Maduro, killing ~75 guards.

• Caribbean Starting Sept 2025: repeated U.S. strikes on boats accused of smuggling drugs, part of the broader campaign that preceded and ran alongside the Venezuela operation.

• Yemen March–May 2025: Operation Rough Rider, sustained airstrikes on Houthi bases using two carrier groups.

• On threatening to hit Iran’s Kharg Island oil terminal again after “totally demolishing” it: “We may hit it a few more times just for fun.”

• Describing the 2017 Syria missile strikes as “beautiful missiles” and comparing military operations to “watching a movie.”

• On timing a strike against Nigeria for Christmas: “They were going to do it earlier. And I said, ‘Nope, let’s give a Christmas present.’”

• Dismissing the ongoing Iran conflict to a crowd in Georgia as just a “skirmish,” days after four U.S. service members were killed in Jordan and Iraq.

• On the Pentagon leadership wanting to keep fighting wars: “The top people in the Pentagon probably aren’t [in love with me] because they want to do nothing but fight wars so that all of those wonderful companies that make the bombs and make the planes and make everything else stay happy.”

He treats the decision as a branding exercise and a domestic political lever rather than the “most solemn decision” JFK described.

He appears fully capable of calculating political and market consequences, the version of consequences that affects him, while showing little evidence of engaging with the human and strategic consequences that fall on troops and civilians.

Reportedly bored by the Iran war and shown curated “highlight reels,” “two-minute compilation videos of ‘stuff blowing up,’” to hold his attention, Trump privately pushed aides on why media coverage didn’t match what he saw in the reels.

John Kelly, Trump’s former chief of staff, describing Trump’s view of Americans who died in combat: he “cavalierly suggests” and reportedly called troops who were killed, wounded, or captured “losers” and “suckers” who got “nothing in it for them.”

Kelly added, “I think it’s that Trump doesn’t understand sacrifice and he doesn’t understand a dedication to the country.” (NBC News)

There is no authorized clinical diagnosis, that would require an actual examination, which Trump has never undergone.

What exists is a genuine and unusually large body of published professional opinion, from credentialed psychiatrists and psychologists, arguing his observable behavior fits the empathy-deficit profile of narcissistic personality disorder or malignant narcissism, countered by equally credentialed voices (including the author of the actual diagnostic criteria) who call that armchair diagnosis a misuse of clinical language for political ends.

Psychologist John Gartner (formerly Johns Hopkins Medical School), writing in “Rocket Man: Nuclear Madness and the Mind of Donald Trump,” goes furthest, explicitly tying it to nuclear/military decision-making:

“Trump suffers from malignant narcissism… combines narcissism with three other severely pathological components: paranoia, sociopathy, and sadism.”

He describes Trump as having “empathy for no one but himself” and taking “gleeful pleasure in harming and humiliating other people.”

However, while professionals are divided, ‘lack of empathy’ is the specific trait cited by name across multiple credentialed sources.

And the failure of normal empathy is central to sociopathy.